Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This heater may or may not be calibrated and/or pre-set to a useful fishkeeping temperature . |
| 2 | Each small request is invariably met , each question carefully considered , points either debated with an academic botanist or explained to an amateur gardener with patient thoroughness . |
| 3 | Prices tend to be omitted from publishers ' catalogues ( or given in a separate leaflet which becomes detached from the main catalogue ) . |
| 4 | Thus ‘ abstract ’ is opposed to ‘ concrete ’ , ‘ explicit ’ to ‘ implicit ’ , ‘ elaborated code ’ to ‘ restricted code ’ , ‘ extensional structure ’ to ‘ in tensional structure ’ , and these types are taken to be related to differing kinds of social experience mediated or formed by a literate organization of reality , on the one hand , and an oral organization of reality , on the other . |
| 5 | After last summer 's trouble 's at Blackbird Leys some roads were narrowed or treated with an anti-skid surface . |
| 6 | Many subjects are represented in a standard form or treated in a standard way and , to cater for this , each edition of the Dewey system lists standard sub-divisions that are never used alone but may be added to any number from the general subject tables . |
| 7 | I need to emphasize two points here : firstly , most textbooks represent a misleading view of reality in which women are neglected or treated in a cursory manner and this is their ideological function . |
| 8 | The ARR did not require the reporting accountant to report on controlled trust accounts , although Part II of the SAR contained rules determining how a solicitor should deal with the movement of controlled trust money , ie the circumstances in which money could be paid in or withdrawn from a controlled trust account , and the records that had to be kept . |
| 9 | When asked to put their minds and bodies at rest , no one ever visualized themselves in the middle of Piccadilly waiting supermarket , or crushed in an underground train . |
| 10 | On the front , you have a picture with a jigsaw-shaped piece missing which you have cut out and either put it on their back or hidden in a little flap on the costume , which can be seen if people lift the flap up . |
| 11 | Bureaucracy , for example , interdigitates with the social reality of individuals and communities , penetrating some spheres of life deeply , others not at all : in each , it may be invited , welcomed , kept at bay , questioned , resented , taken for granted , or regarded as a closed book . |
| 12 | Quite honestly , I think the whole species should be locked up , or banished to a penal colony in the South Seas where they could all shout at each other to their heart 's content and charge each other £32.6O for writing a letter . |
| 13 | Now do n't tell me you spent the night sitting on the station , because they would n't let you , or parked in a stolen car , because you 're not that stupid , not quite . |
| 14 | PCT application 82/03520 explains how an automatic shutoff unit can either be built into a domestic appliance or installed as an add-on unit to existing equipment . |
| 15 | Yet it is known that between one third and one half of mentally handicapped people currently resident in mental handicap hospitals should not be in hospital and could be either immediately discharged or discharged after a short period of training . |
| 16 | On July 4 , 400 people were reported killed or wounded after a massive explosion aimed at police headquarters in the northern oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 17 | But when the kaleidoscope is twisted , shaken , or approached from a new angle , the exact same fragments form an entirely different pattern . |
| 18 | What is much more interesting , I have already suggested , is the idea that there could be patterns of behaviour which human beings are entirely capable of wanting and indeed , on an individual or limited scale , of achieving , but which for biological reasons are bound to be psychologically costly , or confined to a small group of otherwise unusual individuals , or otherwise bound to fail as general social institutions . |
| 19 | Nevertheless any such other business will be likely to interfere with the partner 's ability to devote his full time and attention to the firm : such matters should be discussed between all partners and special arrangements agreed as necessary in relation to individual partners to be either incorporated in the partnership agreement itself or contained in a separate memorandum to which all partners are signatories . |
| 20 | Cuttings that should come to everybody 's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter . |
| 21 | The Schema Builder will enable all parts of the database schema to be created or modified in a graphical environment . |
| 22 | There were other legits she might have bribed or bullied into a similar sharing , but the stairs and the other dusty corners of the World were safer for someone who lived by her knife and her wits . |
| 23 | That summer , scoop necks and arms bare to the shoulders were what every woman wore , with hair loose , or caught in a gleaming beehive . |
| 24 | These were followed or interspersed by a windswept Starmer-Smith standing on the touchline , microphone in hand , sporting a selection from his extensive wardrobe of scarves and neckties , and promising delights which were sure to come next week but which had unaccountably failed to materialise this week . |
| 25 | ‘ It is an accepted practice in dire situations such as this that the board is replaced or supplemented by a new board charged with the function of restoring the fortunes of the company and the confidence of customers , ’ the letter says . |
| 26 | If you are married , or committed to a serious relationship , have one child or more and a home to support , then the hours you work and the amount of travel involved in getting to and from work may limit your options . |
| 27 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 28 | Among writers alone — and even excluding those discussed in the present volume — he concludes that all of the following were either schizophrenic or suffered from an affective psychosis : Strindberg , Baudelaire , Kant , Swift , Shelley , Johnson , Hölderlin , Donizetti , Conrad , Kafka , Coleridge , Schopenhauer , Barrie , Schiller , Crane , Chatterton , Rousseau , Tasso , Maupassant , Balzac , and Boswell . |
| 29 | Every actual utterance is spatiotemporally unique , being spoken or written at a particular place and at a particular time ; and provided that there is some standard system for identifying points in space and time , we can , in principle , specify the actual spatiotemporal situation of any utterance act . |
| 30 | How , one wonders , is the concept of good government to be defined or applied to a particular issue ? |